Transcript 1: Behind the scenes Exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from the filming of Baby Borrowers on Holiday.

Scene: What is The Baby Borrowers about?

Narration: The Baby Borrowers is a bold social experiment. The ambitious eight part series is filmed over 4 weeks, with 60 people on set making it.

Richard McKerrow (Executive producer): So we are doing it down in Cornwall. It’s Baby Borrowers on Holiday, the notion being that actually once you have kids holidays are both fantastic but are also even more stressful.

Narration: This exclusive insight shows exactly what happens behind the scenes.

Scene: Why did the mums want to take part?

Narration: To make the series, the production team contacted willing families from all over the country looking for babies and children who had already experienced some separation from their parents.

Richard: we really want you to forget that the cameras are there because that way we can capture sort of real reality and we want you to engage with these teen couples.

Rachel Harvie (Assistant producer): it just seems ridiculous on paper, there’s no way we can persuade a whole load of people to part with their babies, their nearest and dearest for three days and then their satisfaction of actually being able to do it, everyone who partakes in it does it for a really good reason.

Mum: Everyone thinks I’m mad to lend my baby to a couple of teenagers but they’ve got to learn and I hope that they enjoy the learning with her.

Second Mum: If its going to help one teenage couple have a real good think about having children at that age then I’m all for it.

Scene: Health and safety measures throughout Lauren and Sam story

Narration: From the moment the filming kicks off, all developments are scrutinized.

David: First last night, who was on last night?

Richard: I mean everyday we have a kinda full get together with everyone in the production team to discuss how things are going, how one teen couples doing, how another’s doing.

Narration: During the filming of the toddler programme, it became clear that one of the couples weren’t coping with parenthood And when things got tough, they stopped trying.

Lauren: she actually won’t eat, she just ignores us what are we supposed to do?

Narration: To prevent situations like this escalating, there are important precautions put in place by the production team. The parents are able to watch their child 24 hours a day but as a further safety measure, a nanny is placed in each house to ensure the toddlers’ wellbeing.

Nanny: we’re here just to make sure that the children are in a safe and healthy environment. We know what to expect, we can think ahead, we can just assess the situation a lot quicker than the teenagers do.

Nanny: hello, you need to wake up, alright, now Emily has been up, she has not had any breakfast, one of you needs to come and sort her out or the both of you, cos she is hungry.

Narration: All the houses are carefully monitored via CCTV.

Karen Rowe (Psychotherapist): I’m always on hand to help to advise the production on how best to manage the participants.

Narration: And the production team encourage parents to intervene at any point if they’re not happy.

Dad: I think they’re, I’d like to, just take a walk in have a conversation, pack a bag and take her out kinda thing

Dad: We have decided that for the benefit of Emily that this will stop now.

Karen: I think our feeling in the team, was that it was entirely appropriate for the parents to go in, at least to…

Mark: that is their prerogative anyway.

Karen: Absolutely.

Scene: Hannah and Jo doing well

Narration: But not all the teenagers in the series had the parents concerned.

Jo: Emily, Emily.

Hannah: Good boy Adam.

Jo: Adam is the best teeth brusher

David DeHaney (Executive producer): Well Hannah and Jo’s a very interesting couple in the series, I mean initially when we looked at them we thought they were a strong couple, but we felt they were naive and had no idea what it would be like to cope with kids. To date, and they’re dealing with triplets at the moment, toddler triplets and they’ve been absolutely brilliant. In fact the real parents of the triplets are so impressed with Hannah and Jo because they are actually learning from them.

Mum: we think you’ve done fantastically well, you’ve worked fantastically well as a team.

Dad: you’ve coped remarkably well I am all well, you know, you can have them!

Scene: Ending

Richard: one of the things that the series is trying to do is to ensure that people you know make the right decision about who they’re going to have children with and when they are going to have children so that they can be the best possible parent they can be, which can ensure a child having the best childhood they can have. So I think you know when it works at its best these teenage couples will hopefully by the end of the experience will actually turn round and say, I’m actually 17 and 18 I’ve got plenty of life ahead of me I don’t need it all now.

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